John holmes



JOHN HOLMES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 61,197, dated January 15, 1867.

SMOKING STAND.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN HOLMES, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a non" and improved Smoking Stand; and I do hereby declare -that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the 'art to make and use the same, reference boina' had to the :recoinpanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which I Figure 1 represents a sectional front view of this invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same, the line x x, Eg. 1, indicating the plane of section.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section of the same, taken in the plane indicated by the line y y, Iig. 1.

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This invention consists in a smoking stand, which is provided with a reservoir for smoking tobacco, for cigars, for snuit, for chewing tobacco, for matches, and for pipe-lighters, and also with a suitablebraclrct to support a pipe in such a manner that-all the utensils required by smokers, or by persons using tobacco, are contained in a narrow space, and persons'in` quest of one of the above-named articles can easily nd' them; and furthermore, a stand is obtained, which can be manufactured at a reasonable cost, and which forms an ornament for a counter'in a public house or for the mantel-piece in private or dwellinghouses.

A represents my smoking stand, which is provided with a reservoir, B, to receive smoking tobacco, and With` another reservoir, C, to receive cigars. These reservoirs are made in the form of towers or octagonal prisms, with ornamental covers, which are hinged or Otherwise `arranged so that they can be easily opened and closed. The bottom part or base of the reservoir B is occupied by a drawer, D, which is intended to contain snuit",

and a similar drawer, E, in the base of the reservoir C, serves Ato contain chewing tobacco. The tivo reservoirs.

are connected by a wall or plate, F, and the baseof this wall forms a reservoir or receptacle, Gr, for, matches; and said base is also provided with a suitable friction surface for the purpose of' lighting thematches. On the top of the wallF is a' trough, H, intended to receive and hold pipe-lighters, and this trough is sur-mounted by an urn, I, which may be used simply as an ornament, or which may serve to receive the ashes from pipes and cigars. On the side of the wall F is a bracket, J, and a sliding-catch, K, intended to hold and support the bowl and stem of a smoking pipe; If desired, eachrside of the wall may be provided with one or more such brackets and catches, so that room is obtained for several pipes. The catch K is adjustable on a slide, so that it can be set to correspond to the length of the stem of the pipe.

My stand is very convenient; it can be made cheap or rich, as may be desired, and it forms an ornament Wherever it may be used.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A smoking stand, constructed as herein shown and described..`

JOHN HOLMES. Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, J. W. B. COVINGTON; 

